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  • The first trans-Atlantic hero? General James Wolfe and British North America

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    Early on the morning of 8 June 1758, British frigates unleashed their broadsides upon French shore defences at Gabarus Bay, on the foggy and surf-lashed island of Cape Breton. Under cover of the warships' guns, a motley flotilla of craft headed towards the land. Propelled by straining Royal Navy oarsmen,...
    The first trans-Atlantic hero? General James Wolfe and British North America